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With iPhone X, what does Samsung call its next phones?

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Enlarge Image What comes after X? James Martin/CNET Everything was so ordered before. Now, having launched its Galaxy S8 and Galaxy Note 8, along comes Apple to, um, disrupt things. It couldn’t stick to convention, could it? Instead, it had …

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CNET’s Cheapskate scours the web for great deals on PCs, phones, gadgets and much more. Questions about the Cheapskate blog? Find the answers on our FAQ page. Find more great buys on the CNET Deals page and follow the Cheapskate on Facebook and Twitter! Enlarge Image The RavPower FileHub Plus is a mighty little travel companion. Photo by Rick Broida/CNET Why pack …

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Apple Watch 3 makes calls, but you’d better keep them short

When Apple Senior Vice President of Operations Jeff Williams unveiled the cellular-capable Apple Watch Series 3 in Cupertino yesterday, he touted a fairly impressive 18-hour battery life. Indeed, Apple’s product page says “up to 18 hours,” and that “all day” figure matches the non-cellular Series 3 model, as well as last year’s Series 1 model, which has a slower CPU. …

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Apple hikes prices on higher capacity iPad Pros by $50

The 256GB and 512GB versions of the iPad Pro cost $50 more now than they did before Apple‘s big Tuesday iPhone event. As is standard operating procedure on big Apple announcement days, Apple’s online store went offline a few hours before the event so it could be fully updated with the new cavalcade of products immediately following their unveiling. But …

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Would you use Apple’s new Face ID? (The 3:59, Ep. 283)

With Face ID, Apple is bringing a new way to unlock your iPhone. But whether people are going to use it is still out on the table. We compare Face ID with facial recognition for devices like the Galaxy Note 8 and Samsung’s Galaxy S8, and highlight how Apple’s made it different for the new iPhone X.  Also on the …

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YuMi the robot conducts Italian orchestra playing Verdi

A classical concert in an ancient Tuscan city is perhaps the last place you’d expect to find a robot taking center stage. And yet on Tuesday, YuMi the robot did just that, taking on the role of conductor as he directed the Lucca Philharmonic Orchestra in a rendition of Verdi in Pisa, Italy as part of the International Robotics Festival. …

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Billions of devices vulnerable to creepy Bluetooth hack

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iPhone X, iPhone 8 are real: Watch our live reactions from Apple’s event replay

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